Research Guides: Music: Finding Music

Find Music

These two databases contain streaming music, including recorded live performances, that the library has purchased.

Naxos Music Library This link opens in a new window
Classical music online
OhioLINK Music Center (OMC) This link opens in a new window
Digital recordings of Chinese music, classical music, opera, jazz, spoken word and world music
The OhioLINK Music Center, a subset of the Naxos Music Library, is an online streaming music database of international works from Classical to Spoken Word. The 78,000+ tracks, 21,000+ works can be searched or browsed by track, title, performer, album, composer and date of composition. Flash player is required. Access to the music files is restricted to the students, faculty and staff of OhioLINK member institutions.

The library catalogs allow you to find music on physical media (CDs, records, etc.)

In the Beeghly/OPAL catalog, change the Material Type menu underneath the search boxes to Musical Recording to filter out everything but music.

Beeghly Library Catalog (OPAL)
Searches books at Heidelberg and other private Ohio academic libraries. Books from other libraries can be shipped to Beeghly.

You can also limit to musical recordings in OhioLINK by opening the advanced search and using the Sound Recording menu under the search boxes.

OhioLINK Catalog
Searches books at Ohio academic libraries. Books from other libraries can be shipped to Beeghly.

All of these websites host or search for free music online.

YouTube
World's largest video sharing site
SoundCloud
Social platform for uploading and sharing music
Internet Archive
Massive archive of free media including Creative Commons and public domain music
Free Music Archive
Collection of music of a wide variety of genres cleared for a variety of uses.
ccMixter
Music and samples made available under a resharable Creative Commons license